Discover art
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts supports the development of artistic practices including drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, photography and more.
While the centre is undergoing renovations, we remain committed to promoting all kinds of artists and presenting their work to the community. Exhibitions can be viewed on the first and second levels of the main building.
Browse current and past exhibitions
Artistry
November 6, 2024-January 9, 2025
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (First level, Galleria)
Art is energizing, engaging and expressive. Art can tell a story, surprise you and help you see things in new ways. Here at the Shadbolt Centre, art is the heart of what we do. Our instructors are essential to the vitality of the Shadbolt Centre. They help provide creativity, challenge, enthusiasm and inspiration for our students and fine art programs.
Participating artists: Thomas Anfield, Michael Allard, Christy Dunsmore, Polly Faminow, Alexandre Greghi, Sophia Longo, Janine Schroedter.
Hard Brick
October 16, 2024-January 29, 2025
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Second level, Mather House window)
Ceramic artists, ceramicists, sculptors, potters, pyros—there are many names for us individuals who have found clay and also found the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. The staff and instructors in Ceramic Arts come from a variety of cultural and training backgrounds, reflected in the diversity of the work exhibited throughout the Shadbolt Centre and Mathers House window. Collectively, we bring over a century of experience to the workshops we teach and the specialty firings we lead. Away from Deer Lake Park, we are members of local potters’ guilds, wranglers of group firings, kiln builders, foragers, and alchemists.
Participating artists: Kristine Aguilar, Brit Bachmann, Linda Doherty, Eris Fitz-James, Allysha Hurd, Jay MacLennan, Azadeh Mehryar, Charmian Nimmo, Fredi Rahn, Emily Sheppard, Brianne Siu, Kennedy Snider, Cheryl Stapleton, Robert Stickney, Nora Vaillant, and Tony Wilson. Curated by Brianne Siu.
Shadbolt Centre Ceramics Bisque Collection
July 12-September 16, 2024
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Atrium, Second floor, Mathers House window)
Over the last three decades, Shadbolt Centre Ceramics has hosted dozens of public engagements with local, national and international artists, ranging from intimate workshops where participants work directly alongside a visiting artist, to larger symposia with multiple simultaneous ceramics demonstrations happening throughout the centre. These engagements have resulted in a collection of “demo pieces,” partially finished work that has been bisque-fired for preservation, but not glazed or finished by the artist. Demo pieces are gifted to Shadbolt Centre Ceramics as educational resources so that instructors may show various techniques, forms, and styles of creative expression. The items on display represent a small selection from the collection, curated by Fredi Rahn.
Participating artists: Amelia Butcher, Tony Clennell, Bruce Cochrane, Paul Davis, Robin DuPont, Julia Galloway, Jane Hamlyn, Patrick Horsley, Michael Kline, Alwyn O'Brien, Simon Levin, Shaun Peter Mallonga, Lorna Meaden, Sarah Pike, Linda Sikora, Ruthanne Tudball, Sam Uhlick, Takeshi Yasuda.
Student Scholarship Program 2024
July 12-September 16, 2024
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Galleria)
Between June 11-24, 2024, Shadbolt Centre Ceramics hosted a cohort of emerging artists in the Mathers House Pottery Studio as part of the Student Scholarship Program. Six artists from three partner institutions (Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and Langara College) had access to the ceramics facilities and mentorship by Cheryl Stapleton, culminating in a specialty soda firing at The Vault. This annual program is made possible through the support of each partner institution, North-West Ceramics Foundation, and City of Burnaby. The ceramic work on display in the galleria is a selection of pieces by this year's cohort.
Participating artists: Joy Chen, Astrid Chow Gee Kwan, Luke Dunn, Jordan Mitchell, Bella Roberts, Naomi Zhang.
Soft Brick
May 22-June 21, 2024
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Atrium, Galleria)
Featuring selected artworks by adult students of Shadbolt Centre ceramic workshops from 2023-24.
Participating artists: Rachel Rose Anthony, Suzanne Basnett, Patrick Blaeser, Karie Cardamone, Bárbara Castro, Veronica Chee, Ko-Shao Chen, Cheryl Chin, Jenn Cooper, Kimmie Dang, Rob Dainow, Marion Dobson, Breanna Fabbro, Shelsea Forward, Bahar Ghobassy, Jurga Hoffman, Niki Holmes, Jane Keay, Odette LeBlanc, Steve Lee, Cindy Leland, Joanne Leung, David Lloyd, Wai-Sue Louie, Lydia Lovison, Melanie Luchkow, Vivien Ma, Lindsay McArthur, Zoe McDougall, Renée Mills, Christian Nicolay, Gayla Shulhan, Sasha Syniashchok, Kitty Tang, Emily Thacker, Amy Tsoi, Flo Tung, Linda Ward, Terence Yeung, Sharon Yio, Jessie Yuet, Tiffany Yuet, Andrea Zittlau, and gestural sculptures by students of Emily Sheppard’s Sculpting From Life.
Earth & Pine
May 8-21, 2024
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Galleria)
An exhibition of collaborative pine-needle basketry and earthenware ceramics by ceramic artist and longtime Shadbolt Centre instructor Linda Doherty and her sister, fibre artist Lynnette Gullackson.
Participating artists: Linda Doherty and Lynnette Gullackson
Unbound Gestures
February 21-March 31, 2024
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Atrium, Centre Aisle Gallery and Encores Café)
Explore Unbound Gestures, our newest exhibition featuring works by Deer Lake Artists in Residence 2023. The opening reception with art talks happens on February 29 at 6 pm.
Participating artists: Mandy Tsung, Cat Hart, SF Ho, Nazanin Oghanian, Crystal Noir, Tamana S. H. Djuya, Rob Froese, Kennedy Snider, Michelle Grimm, Azadeh Mehryar, Brit Bachmann
Clay Together
January 15-February 5, 2024
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Atrium, Galleria)
This exhibition features a variety of ceramics by current members of the Burnaby Potters Guild.
Slaked
October 16-November 3, 2023
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Atrium)
This exhibition demonstrates the talent of the Shadbolt Centre ceramics department! Featuring functional and sculptural ceramics by 2023/24 staff and instructors.
Participating artists: Kristine Aguilar, Brit Bachmann, Linda Doherty, Sabrina Keskula, Jay MacLennan, Arlynn Nobel, Fredi Rahn, Emily Sheppard, Brianne Siu, Kennedy Snider, Cheryl Stapleton, Nora Vaillant, Tony Wilson
Student Scholarship Program 2023
July-September 2023
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Atrium)
The Student Scholarship Program is an annual 2-week ceramics residency for six students from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Langara College and Emily Carr University of Art + Design, with support from the North-West Ceramics Foundation. This exhibition features soda fired work from this residency.
Participating artists: Gabby Cassell, Nicole Guillemin, Akiab Martinez, Margo Sorbara, Eloisa Uy, Claudia Zilin Shen
Perpetual Navigation
Christian Nicolay
April 1-27, 2023
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Atrium)
During the summer of 2022, Deer Lake Artist in Residence, Christian Nicolay had the opportunity to try working in clay. Merging real objects with hand-built clay pieces, these ceramic explorations integrate with his more familiar practices of drawing, sculpture and installation.
Learn more: christiannicolay.com
unforgotten - my journey home
By dawna mueller
February 27-March 29, 2023
Centre Aisle Gallery
A solo photographic exhibition of large format analog black and white multiple exposures exploring the power of images in relation to memory, history and ancestry.
Listen to the interview with Dawna Mueller and CBC Radio’s Early Addition: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-91/clip/15970271
Burnaby Photographic Society Print Exhibition
December 3, 2022-January 28, 2023
Centre Aisle Gallery and Encore’s Café
The Burnaby Photographic Society is a diverse community of photographers, which includes amateurs, emerging artists and professionals. The variety of photos in this exhibition highlights the varied interests of the club's members.
David Papa Solo Student Online Exhibition
Presenting Riflessioni di isolamento | Reflections on Isolation. Photos by photography student David Papa, exploring his experience and discovery of street photography.
Visual Art Instructors
We are pleased to share Shadbolt’s Visual Arts Instructor Exhibition 2021, showcasing the wide variety of skills and talents of our instructors.
Culture Days 2021: Birds I View
Using the natural elements of picturesque Deer Lake Park, participants used bird stencils to search for colourful textures to act as background patterns for their birds. This was just one of the many free activities offered as part of Culture Days, a month long, nationwide celebration of arts and culture from September 24 to October 24, 2021.
Langara College Ceramics Scholarship
Georgia Fairhurst and Dimos Kefalas were the recipients of the first Langara College Ceramics Scholarship, a program made possible by a collaboration between Langara College, the Northwest Ceramics Foundation, and the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
Shadbolt teen art exhibition 2021
Teen artists use photography, painting and pottery for reflection, self-expression, exploration and growth.
Greg Kimura: ceramics
Greg Kimura uses his quirky humour to design ceramic ware that'll make you smile.
Visual arts
Students showcase stunning artwork full of great details and style.
A Touch of Hand: alternative processes in photography
Photo-based artists showcase images created by hand either before or once the lens-based images have been formed. The methods used include pinhole photography, mixed media, cyanograph, scanogram and lumen printing.
Ari de la Mora and Richard Kent
Reimagine a traditional Mexican game called La Loteria, often referred to as Mexican Bingo, which uses historical images as the game's calling cards.
Susan Falk
Susan Falk uses oil, acrylic and pastel to express the vastness of the land and water Deer Lake Park encompasses.